A Fullerton City Council candidate is no longer eligible to take office if elected after being charged with two felonies, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.
In a release issued Tuesday , the DA’s Office said that Scott Markowitz, a city council candidate for Fullerton’s Ward 4, filed paperwork fraudulently stating he personally collected the signatures necessary to qualify him for the Nov. 5 election.
It was found that Markowitz signed candidate nomination papers under penalty of perjury that he was the circulator of the candidate paperwork and collected 30 signatures this past August. Anyone over the age of 18 can circulate the form, but the person signing the paperwork must be the same person who witnessed the signatures in person, the DA’s office said.
“Markowitz attested under penalty of perjury that he personally witnessed the signatures, but numerous voters who signed his nomination paperwork told district attorney investigators that Markowitz was not the circulator of the paperwork,” O.C. District Attorney’s Office officials stated. “[Markowitz] did not witness them signing the nomination papers, rendering the signatures invalid.”